Work

Kin Berlin

Archivio Luigi Ghirri

Artomatic

Komeda Films

Das Programm

Everything Solid

Failures: Process Beyond Success

Liaux

Doppio Gioco

Wilton Music Mall

Unfeasible: limit, check, opening

Karin Ruggaber: beings, undone, very

Play: toys, sets, rules

Systems Beijing

Cousins and Cousins 3rd anniversary

Walter Knoll printed material

Journal

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21.06.2018Braun+Vitsoe: Total Design

We collaborated with our longtime partner, Das Programm, to produce an exhibition of Braun and Vitsoe as part of the London Festival of Architecture. Exhibition guide and post cards presented an opportunity for extending and testing our previous identity design.

16.03.2018Humboldt Books

We’re pleased to introduce new collaborators, Humboldt Books. The Italian publishing house specialises in travel literature, drawing inspiration from scientific explorations of the 18th and 19th centuries. Its travelogues combine knowledge and practices derived from a breadth of disciplines, recounting travel experiences with a watchful and unconventional eye. 'Via Roma 398. Palermo', now being designed by Systems Studio, will make a natural addition to Humboldt’s list. Issued in conjunction with the exhibition, Raymond, curated by Luca Trevisani and Olaf Nicolai, the book assembles artists writings and images connected through the exhibition to the 19th century writer, traveller and proto-surrealist Raymound Roussel.

16.02.2018Luca Trevisani & Olaf Nicolai

We are excited to announce a new collaboration with artists Luca Trevisani and Olaf Nicolai.

On 14th of July 1933 the visionary writer and proto-surrealist Raymond Roussel died at the Grand Hotel et Des Palmes, Palermo. Trevisani and Nicolai’s project, Raymond, will unfold at the hotel this May. An international group of twenty-nine authors, amongst them Tacita Dean, Rodney Graham, Gianfranco Baruchello and Angela Bulloch, will contribute to a series of events, happenings and artworks that will occupy and test the hotel’s spaces.

Systems Studio have been appointed to design a visual identity for the project, along side exhibition graphics and an accompanying publication, to be published by Humboldt Books.

08.11.2017Talk at Stanton Williams Architects

Old friends of the studio, Stanton Williams Architects, invited us to contribute to their programme of inspiration talks. Some great conversation was had about design, constraint and the point of exhibitions.

21.09.2017Reinhold Weiss Archive

Weiss served a three-year apprenticeship as a joiner, and two years as an intern at an architectural office before receiving a training in industrial design at the HfG Ulm, 1955 – 1959. In the summer before his graduation, he practiced in the architectural department at Braun, and was subsequently invited by Artur Braun to join the company.

From his graduation in 1959, Weiss worked as the firm’s first formally trained industrial designer. In 1962 the Braun Design Department was established, and from that date until his resignation in 1967 Weiss served as its Deputy Head with particular responsibility for household appliances and personal care products. Later, in 1964, the New Products division was formed, for which Weiss supplied the first concepts and preliminary designs.

Weiss' contribution to Braun Design has been immense. According to his distinctive approach, shaped in large part by his training at Ulm, each solution was rigorously worked out entirely on its own terms, without reliance on generic or pre-established forms. This resulted in a number of ground-breaking and now iconic designs, amongst them: desk fans HL 1/11 (1959); toasters HT 1 (1960) and HT 2 (1961); kettle HE 1 (1960); hair dryers HLD 2/21 and HLD 5 (both 1963); coffee grinders KMM 1 and KSM 1/11 (both 1964); table lighter TFG 1 (1965); head phones KH 1000 (1965); hand mixer M140 (1966). Weiss also undertook a number of development studies that continued to shape the Braun Programme years after his departure.

Following his tenure at Braun, Weiss served for four years as Executive Designer and Vice President of Unimark International, working from the corporation’s Chicago headquarters. In 1971 Weiss formed his own design consultancy, reinhold weiss design incorporated, also based in Chicago, which he directed as President until 2006. The greater part of his work was undertaken in the area of consumer electronics, particularly audio and video products, for companies such as Proton, NAD, Panasonic, Blaupunkt, AMC and AR (Acoustic Research).

Systems will curate, design, build and maintain the online archive in consultation with Reinhold Weiss. This unique resource will provide a comprehensive survey of Weiss' work. In addition to documenting his crucial contribution to Braun Design, the archive will make available a wealth of important and hitherto unpublished materials, amongst them Weiss' HfG student work, Braun studies and prototypes, and designs undertaken for over 30 clients in the USA, Germany, France, England, Japan and Taiwan.

15.09.2017Systems' Director speaks at the V&A

Our creative director, Peter Kapos, will be in conversation with Dietrich Lubs, Benjamin Wilson and the V&A’s Johanna Agermann Ross. This event, Collections: meaning, relevance, value, is an element of the Global Design Forum programme, hosted by the V&A.

21.08.2017Visit to the Luigi Ghirri Archive

Our project to design a new website for the Luigi Ghirri Archive began with a research visit. We were pleased to have had a reason to return to Roncocesi recently to supervise photography of the Archive’s collection of Ghirri monographs. This set of pictures will appear on the new website, now entering its development phase and on course for launch in October 2017.

22.07.2017Everything Solid

Everything Solid, the book we designed for Louis De Belle and Nicolo Ornaghi, launched at MEGA Gallery, Milan, last night. See the Everything Solid website, also designed by Systems, for further information about the project.

18.07.2017Louis De Belle & Nicolo Ornaghi

We’re pleased to introduce new collaborators artist Louis De Belle (pictured) and curator Nicolo Ornaghi. Louis is a fine art photographer whose detached pictures record objects that appear to have become separated from their familiar meanings. Nicolo is an architect, writer, curator and member of the collective, Raumplan.

We are working together on a book project conceived around the destruction of a primary coloured Joe Colombo Bobby Trolley. More news to follow soon.

17.05.2017Luigi Ghirri

We are pleased to announce our appointment by the Estate of Luigi Ghirri to design a website for its archive. Literary, formalist, conceptual and generously anthropological, Ghirri is a giant of twentieth century photography. We consider it an honour to contribute towards increasing the accessibility of Ghirri’s already very widely appreciated work.

16.03.2017LIAUX: Luca Vitone X Luca Lo Pinto

We are pleased announce our appointment by curator Luca Lo Pinto to design his contribution for online fine art project space, Liaux. Lo Pinto has conceived of a virtual exhibition formed as a series of responses to the work of artist Luca Vitone. We're excited to explore ways of expressing this dialogue of images.

Photographs

Luca Vitone, Galleria Pinta. 1988

Mel Bochner, Measurement Room. 1969

16.03.2017Francesca Verga

Systems is pleased to introduce a new client and collaborator, Francesca Verga. Francesca is Coordinator for Manifesta 12, to be held in Palermo in 2018, and founder of Liaux, an online contemporary art project space. Systems has been appointed to design the Liaux website, which will serve as a portal to projects created for Liaux by invited artists and curators.

21.06.2018Braun+Vitsoe: Total Design

We collaborated with our longtime partner, Das Programm, to produce an exhibition of Braun and Vitsoe as part of the London Festival of Architecture. Exhibition guide and post cards presented an opportunity for extending and testing our previous identity design.

16.03.2018Humboldt Books

We’re pleased to introduce new collaborators, Humboldt Books. The Italian publishing house specialises in travel literature, drawing inspiration from scientific explorations of the 18th and 19th centuries. Its travelogues combine knowledge and practices derived from a breadth of disciplines, recounting travel experiences with a watchful and unconventional eye. 'Via Roma 398. Palermo', now being designed by Systems Studio, will make a natural addition to Humboldt’s list. Issued in conjunction with the exhibition, Raymond, curated by Luca Trevisani and Olaf Nicolai, the book assembles artists writings and images connected through the exhibition to the 19th century writer, traveller and proto-surrealist Raymound Roussel.

16.02.2018Luca Trevisani & Olaf Nicolai

We are excited to announce a new collaboration with artists Luca Trevisani and Olaf Nicolai.

On 14th of July 1933 the visionary writer and proto-surrealist Raymond Roussel died at the Grand Hotel et Des Palmes, Palermo. Trevisani and Nicolai’s project, Raymond, will unfold at the hotel this May. An international group of twenty-nine authors, amongst them Tacita Dean, Rodney Graham, Gianfranco Baruchello and Angela Bulloch, will contribute to a series of events, happenings and artworks that will occupy and test the hotel’s spaces.

Systems Studio have been appointed to design a visual identity for the project, along side exhibition graphics and an accompanying publication, to be published by Humboldt Books.

Old friends of the studio, Stanton Williams Architects, invited us to contribute to their programme of inspiration talks. Some great conversation was had about design, constraint and the point of exhibitions.

Weiss served a three-year apprenticeship as a joiner, and two years as an intern at an architectural office before receiving a training in industrial design at the HfG Ulm, 1955 – 1959. In the summer before his graduation, he practiced in the architectural department at Braun, and was subsequently invited by Artur Braun to join the company.

From his graduation in 1959, Weiss worked as the firm’s first formally trained industrial designer. In 1962 the Braun Design Department was established, and from that date until his resignation in 1967 Weiss served as its Deputy Head with particular responsibility for household appliances and personal care products. Later, in 1964, the New Products division was formed, for which Weiss supplied the first concepts and preliminary designs.

Weiss' contribution to Braun Design has been immense. According to his distinctive approach, shaped in large part by his training at Ulm, each solution was rigorously worked out entirely on its own terms, without reliance on generic or pre-established forms. This resulted in a number of ground-breaking and now iconic designs, amongst them: desk fans HL 1/11 (1959); toasters HT 1 (1960) and HT 2 (1961); kettle HE 1 (1960); hair dryers HLD 2/21 and HLD 5 (both 1963); coffee grinders KMM 1 and KSM 1/11 (both 1964); table lighter TFG 1 (1965); head phones KH 1000 (1965); hand mixer M140 (1966). Weiss also undertook a number of development studies that continued to shape the Braun Programme years after his departure.

Following his tenure at Braun, Weiss served for four years as Executive Designer and Vice President of Unimark International, working from the corporation’s Chicago headquarters. In 1971 Weiss formed his own design consultancy, reinhold weiss design incorporated, also based in Chicago, which he directed as President until 2006. The greater part of his work was undertaken in the area of consumer electronics, particularly audio and video products, for companies such as Proton, NAD, Panasonic, Blaupunkt, AMC and AR (Acoustic Research).

Systems will curate, design, build and maintain the online archive in consultation with Reinhold Weiss. This unique resource will provide a comprehensive survey of Weiss' work. In addition to documenting his crucial contribution to Braun Design, the archive will make available a wealth of important and hitherto unpublished materials, amongst them Weiss' HfG student work, Braun studies and prototypes, and designs undertaken for over 30 clients in the USA, Germany, France, England, Japan and Taiwan.

15.09.2017Systems' Director speaks at the V&A

Our creative director, Peter Kapos, will be in conversation with Dietrich Lubs, Benjamin Wilson and the V&A’s Johanna Agermann Ross. This event, Collections: meaning, relevance, value, is an element of the Global Design Forum programme, hosted by the V&A.

Our project to design a new website for the Luigi Ghirri Archive began with a research visit. We were pleased to have had a reason to return to Roncocesi recently to supervise photography of the Archive’s collection of Ghirri monographs. This set of pictures will appear on the new website, now entering its development phase and on course for launch in October 2017.

22.07.2017Everything Solid

Everything Solid, the book we designed for Louis De Belle and Nicolo Ornaghi, launched at MEGA Gallery, Milan, last night. See the Everything Solid website, also designed by Systems, for further information about the project.

18.07.2017Louis De Belle & Nicolo Ornaghi

We’re pleased to introduce new collaborators artist Louis De Belle (pictured) and curator Nicolo Ornaghi. Louis is a fine art photographer whose detached pictures record objects that appear to have become separated from their familiar meanings. Nicolo is an architect, writer, curator and member of the collective, Raumplan.

We are working together on a book project conceived around the destruction of a primary coloured Joe Colombo Bobby Trolley. More news to follow soon.

17.05.2017Luigi Ghirri

We are pleased to announce our appointment by the Estate of Luigi Ghirri to design a website for its archive. Literary, formalist, conceptual and generously anthropological, Ghirri is a giant of twentieth century photography. We consider it an honour to contribute towards increasing the accessibility of Ghirri’s already very widely appreciated work.

We are pleased announce our appointment by curator Luca Lo Pinto to design his contribution for online fine art project space, Liaux. Lo Pinto has conceived of a virtual exhibition formed as a series of responses to the work of artist Luca Vitone. We're excited to explore ways of expressing this dialogue of images.

Photographs

Luca Vitone, Galleria Pinta. 1988

Mel Bochner, Measurement Room. 1969

16.03.2017Francesca Verga

Systems is pleased to introduce a new client and collaborator, Francesca Verga. Francesca is Coordinator for Manifesta 12, to be held in Palermo in 2018, and founder of Liaux, an online contemporary art project space. Systems has been appointed to design the Liaux website, which will serve as a portal to projects created for Liaux by invited artists and curators.

We collaborated with our longtime partner, Das Programm, to produce an exhibition of Braun and Vitsoe as part of the London Festival of Architecture. Exhibition guide and post cards presented an opportunity for extending and testing our previous identity design.